Machines



(No Model.)

H. RUSGHENEK.

GRAIN WHEEL POR MOWING MAGHINES. No. 846,443. Patented July 27, 1886.

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lINiTEn STATES PATENT @tarea HENRY RUSCHENEK, OF BROGKPORT, NEV YORK.

GRAIN=WHEEL FOR MOWING-IVIACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,443, dated July 27,1886.

Application filed November 1l, 1885. Serial No.182ASS. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ItUseI-TENEK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brockport, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain- Vheels forllIowing-Maehines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspectiveView showing the track-clearer and outside shoe of a mowing-machine withmy improvements attached. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the samewith the supporting-wheel removed. Fig. 3 represents aplan view. Fig. Ilis a detail illustrating in perspective the clip H.

My invention relates to certain improvements adapted to the outside shoeand trackclearers of mowing-machines; and the same consists in theconstruction and combination of devices, as well as in certain details,all of which will be hereinafter described, and spe-A cifically pointedout in the claims.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willnow describe its construction and the manner in which I have carried itont.

In the said drawings, A represents an outside shoe, and B thetrack-clearer, of a mowing-machine. The rear of the-shoe is providedwith a boss, a,having a pin or bolt, b, which furnishes a fulcrum for alever, D, which adjusts the position of the supporting-wheel C, as Ishall hereinafter describe. The forward end of the lever D is formed onthe arc of a circle, and moves freely within a curved guide-plate, e,east on the outer face of the shoe, and a bolt, d, projecting from theforward end of the lever, acts as a shaft or bearing for thesupporting-wheel C.

The track-clearer B is pivotally secured to the shoe at e, and isprovided with a plate, E, pivoted at one end to the track-clearer at f,its opposite end being slotted at g to receive a bolt or set-screw, h.The plate E also has an extension or rack, E', provided with openings 7:Z.

lVhen the end of the lever Displaced in the upper opening, 7J, it willraise the front of the shoe and the sickle to about the highest cuttingdistance from the ground, which is about five inches, but permitting thetrackclearer, by reason of its pivoted connection with the shoe, toremain in its normal position on the ground. Vhen the end ofthe lever isplaced in the lower opening, l, the shoe and cutters are loweredand in apesition in which it is preferred to use the machine for cutting grass.

The forward portion of the shoe is provided with the usual means forsustaining the inger-bar Gr and guiding the movements of the cutters,and to the finger-bar I secure a clip, H, of peculiar construction,which is designed to close or nearly close the space in the rear of thecutter between the finger-bar and lower face of the slot S, therebypreventing the grass or other material from clogging and interferingwith the successful working of the cutters. This clip H is bolted to thelinger-bar at m, and is provided with an upwardly-extending flange, a,adapted to close the open space between the shoe and fingerbar, therebypreventing clogging, and an augular extension, p, which passes throughthe slot S, lying closely against the face ot' the cutters, and beingsecured to the 'finger-bar at r on the opposite or inner side of theshoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

l. The shoe A and the wheel C, in combina tion with a lever fnlcrumedupon said shoe, and having said wheel mounted on its forward end, atrack-clearer pivoted to the inner side of said shoe, and a pivotedplate or rack for engaging and holding the rear end of said lever,whereby the forward portion of the shoe is elevated or depressed,substantially as described. l

2. The shoe A and the track-clearer B, pivoted to its rear, incombination with a means for elevating and depressing the forward end ofthe shoe, comprising a lever fnlcrumed upon the rear of the shoe, andhaving a curved forward end, a curved guide for said end,awheel mountedupon a bolt projecting from said lever, a plate or rack pivoted to thetrackclearer, andfprovided with openings which are engaged by the rearend of said lever, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination, with the shoe and the IOO finger-bar of amowing-machine, of the clip H, having a, forward extension, p, and anup- Wardly-extending flange, fn, formed upon the outer edge of saidextension, substantially as 5 herein described.

4. In a mowing-machine7 the supporting- Wheel, the shoe, the trackclearer pivoted thereto, and a lever fulcrumed upon the shoe andprovided with a curved end, andjournal 1o for the supporting-wheel, incombination with a curved guide for the forward endof the lever, a platepivoted to the track-clearer, and provided with an extension orrack,vvhere by the lever is adjusted, and a set-screw for securing theupper end of the plate, substau- 15 tially as herein described.

, HENRY RUSCHENEK. Witnesses:

L. T. UNDERHILL, J AMES BRENNAN.

